history of fermentation

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  • 220

    Chinese

    Chinese started Fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 B.C.

  • Schwann

    Concluded that Fermentation is the result of living things.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Determined that Fermenation is caused by yeast.

  • Eduard Buchner

    Recieved the Nobel Prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause Fermentation.

  • Aurthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin

    They determined exactly how enzymes cause Fermentation and they won the Nobel Prize.

  • Fermintation

    Technology was developed to use Fermintaion to produce anibiotics.

  • The use of Fermentation

    The use of Fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date to about 8000 B.C.