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220BC - Chinese used fermented tea to treat different illnesses
3,000 years ago - the Chinese used soybean curd that had been fermented to treat infections.
8,000BC - fermentation has been used to make alcohol and to make bread rise -
German scientist Theodor Schwann who developed the cell theory found that fermentation is the result of living things which influenced Louis Pasteur's work.
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Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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German chemist, Eduard Buchner shows that the enzymes in yeast cells are what cause fermentation, not the yeast itself. He received the Nobel prize for this.
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Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin found exactly how fermentation is caused by enzymes and won the Nobel prize for this.
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Technology makes it possible to produce antibiotics using fermentation.