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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections and they started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 BC.
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Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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He determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes cause fermentation.
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They determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.
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Arthur and Hans won the Nobel prize for their work.
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
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The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages dates back to 8000 BC.