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The fermentation to make bread rise and to produce acholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture as itself, which most scholars date back to about 8000 B.C
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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 B.C
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Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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Louis Pasteur was determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Received Nobel Peace Prize for showing the enzymes in yeast cells, not yeast cells themselves.
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Harden an Euler-Chelpin won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work. This is the picture of Athur Harden.
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By the 1940's technology was developed to use fermentation as antibiotics.