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Fermentation used to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages.
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Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is a result of living things.
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Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Euduard Buchner recieved a Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells cause fermentation.
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Determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation and won the Nobel prize in 1929.
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
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Today we still use fermentation in similar ways as we have been for the passed ten thousand years.
