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The Chinese used fermented soybean to cure skin infections 3,000 years ago, and they started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses.
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Schwaann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things. He helped develop the cell theory.
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Louis Pasteur the French chemist, determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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A German chemist named Eduard Buchner recieved the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, no the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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Arthus Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin, determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation, they, won the Nobel prize for their work.
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
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The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alhcoholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date to aboutr 8000 B.C.
