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Chinese
The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3,000 years ago. They started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses. -
Schwann
Schwann concluded that fermintaion is the result of living things. -
Pasteur
French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentaion is caused by yeast. -
Buchner
Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells. -
Harden and Euler-Chelpin
Harden and Euler-Chelpin won the Nobel prize for determining exactly how enzymes cause fermentation. -
Technology
Technology was developed to use fermentation to make antibiotics. -
Today
Today fermentation is used to produce medicines , and alcoholic beverages. It is als used to make bread rise. -
Fermentation B.C.
The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages dated all the way back to 8000 B.C.