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Schwan concluded that fermentation is the result of living things
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French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Edward Buchner recieved a noble prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Cheplin won the Noble prize for determining how enzymes cause fermentation
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technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics
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Most scholars date the development of agriculture and the use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce antibiotics to about 8000 B.C.
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The Chinese used fermented tea to treat a varity of illnesses.
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The chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections
