History of Fermentation

By Nica

  • Theodor Schwann

    Concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

  • Eduard Buchner

    Recived the Nobel Prize for showing that enzymes in the yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves cause fermentation.

  • Aurthur Harden and Hans Eluer- Chelpin

    Won noble prize for work done this year.

  • Technology

    Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antiboitics.