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    chinese used fermented soybean curd

    the chinese use fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3000 years ago
  • shwann's conclusion for fermentation

    Shwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
  • history of fermentation

    french chemist louis pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast
  • Eduard Buchner won nobel prize

    German chemist named Eduard Buchner recieved the nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin

    arthur Harden and Hans Euler- Chelpin won a noble prize for their work for determining exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.
  • technology was developed

    technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.