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Theodor Schwann's conclusion
He concluded that fermentation is the result of living things. -
Fermentation is discovered!
Fermentation is discovered by a French chemist, Louis Pasteur. -
Eduard Buchner
He recieved the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation. -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
Two scientists, Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin, determined exactly how enzymes cause fementation. -
Technology strikes again
By the 1940's, technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.