History of Fermentation

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  • 220

    BC, THE CHINESE

    The Chinese started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 BC.
  • Sep 16, 1000

    BC, 3000 years ago, THE CHINESE

    The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3,00 years ago.

  • THEODOR SCHWANN

    Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.

  • LOUIS PASTEUR

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

  • EDUARD BUCHNER

    Buchner recieved the Nobel Prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.

  • ARTHUR HARDEN AND HANS EULER-CHEPLIN

    Harden and Euler-Cheplin won a Nobel Prize for their work in 1929. They determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.

  • IN THE 1940s

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

  • BC, SCHOLARS

    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