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220
Chinese
used fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses -
Theodor Schwann
conclued that fermentation is the result of living things -
Louis Pasteur
determined that fermentation is caused by yeast -
Eduard Buchner
received the Nobel prize award for showing that enzymes in yeast, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
both won the nobel prize for determining exactly how eczymes cause fermentation. -
New technology
was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.