History of Fermentation

  • 220

    Chinese 220 B.C.

    Chinese started using fermented tea to cure illness.
  • Theodore Schwann

    He concluded fermination is the result of living things.
  • Louis Pasteur

    This French chemist determined that fermenation is caused by yeast.
  • Eduard Buchner

    Recieved Nobel Prize for showing enzymes in yeast cells.
  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin

    Revieved Nobel prize for work on enzymes.
  • New technology

    Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.