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The Chinese started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 BC.
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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3,00 years ago.
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Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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The French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Buchner recieved the Nobel Prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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Harden and Euler-Cheplin won a Nobel Prize for their work in 1929. They determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.
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By the 1940s, technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
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Scholars discovered that fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages dated back to be as old as the development of agriculture in about 8000 BC