History of Fermentation

Theodor Schwann

Oct 9, 1840

Theodor Schwann, a German scientist, concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.

Louis Pasteur

Jun 9, 1854

French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

Eduard Buchner

Oct 9, 1907

Eduard Buchner, a German chemist received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the teast cells themselves, cause fermentation.

Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin

Oct 9, 1929

Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin, two scientists, determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation and they won the Nobel prize for their work.

Antiiotics

Oct 9, 1940

By the 1940's, technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.