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He concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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Fermentation is discovered by a French chemist, Louis Pasteur.
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He recieved the Nobel 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 fementation.
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By the 1940's, technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.