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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections, and they started using fermented tea to treat a veriety of illnesses.
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Theodor Schwann, concluded that fermentation is the 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 Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in the yeast cells, not the yeast itself, cause fermentation.
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Artur Harden and Hans Euler-Chlepin determined how enzymes cause fermentation
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiodics
