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Jan 1, 1000
Alcoholic beverages and bread
In around 8000 B.C., fermentation used to make alcoholic beverages and to make bread rise. -
Jan 1, 1400
Chinese uses of fermentation
The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections, and they used fermented tea to treat a varirty of illnesses. -
Schwann
Schwann concluded that fermentation is a result of living things. -
Louis Pasteur
French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast. -
Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that the enzymes in yeast cells cause fermentation. -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin won the Noble prize for determining how enzymes cause fermentation. -
Technology
Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
