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the chinese use fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3000 years ago
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Shwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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french chemist louis pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast
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German chemist named Eduard Buchner recieved the nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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arthur Harden and Hans Euler- Chelpin won a noble prize for their work for determining exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.
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technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.