Fermentatinon timeline

  • 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.