History of Fermentation

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  • 220

    Chinese medicines

    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.

  • Theodor Schwann

    Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.

  • Louis Pasteur

    He determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

  • Eduard Buchner

    Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes cause fermentation.

  • Arthur Harden and hans Euler - Chelpin

    They determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.

  • Harden and Chelpin

    Arthur and Hans won the Nobel prize for their work.

  • Technology

    Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.

  • Oldest uses of fermentation

    The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages dates back to 8000 BC.