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Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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In 1854, the French chemist Louis Pasteu determinded that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Eduard Buchner recieved the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves case fermentation.
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Two Decades later, two scientsts determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation. They too, won the nobel prize
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By 1940, technology was developed enough to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
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Theuse of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date back to 8000 BC.
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3,000 years ago the chinese use fermented soybean to treat sking infections. The started to treat a varity of illnesses as early as 220 BC.
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Today fermentation is used to produce industrial chemicals, medicines such as antiboticsm and acholic beverages, as well as to make bread rise and to preserve many types of food.
