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