History of Frementation

By blackaura13
  • 220

    Chinese used fermented tea to treat illness and soybean curd to treat skin infections

    Chinese used fermented tea to treat illness and soybean curd to treat skin infections
    BC 220

  • Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things

    Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things
    1840-- picture= fermentation soy sauce in China

  • Louis Pasteur, a french chemist, detemined that fermentation is caused by yeast

  • Eduard Buchner received the Nobel Prize

    Showed that enzymes in yeast cells, not yeast cells themselves

  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler - Cheplin won noble prize

    Determined how enzymes cause fermentation

  • Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.