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Fermented Tea
The chinese start using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 BC. -
Conclusion about fermantation
Around 1840, Schwann concluded that fermantationis the result of living things. -
Determined Fermantation
In 1854, the French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermantation is caused by yeast. -
Nobel Prize
In 1907, a German scientist named Eduard Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermantation. -
Enzymes cause fermentation
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Celphin determined how enzymes cause fermentation and they won the Nobel prize for their work. -
Producing antibiotics
In 1940 technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics. -
Bread rise and Alchoholic beverages
The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alchoholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholors date back to about 8000 BC.
