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The Chinese used fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses around 220B.C
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Schwann, the German scientist,concluded that fermentation is a result of living things.
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The French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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A german scientist named Eduard Buchner recieved the Noble prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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Two scientists,Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin, determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.
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The use of Fermentation to make brad rise and to produce alcholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date back to about 8000B.C
