History of Frementation By blackaura13 220 Chinese used fermented tea to treat illness and soybean curd to treat skin infections BC 220 Oct 13, 1840 Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things 1840-- picture= fermentation soy sauce in China Oct 13, 1854 Louis Pasteur, a french chemist, detemined that fermentation is caused by yeast Oct 13, 1907 Eduard Buchner received the Nobel Prize Showed that enzymes in yeast cells, not yeast cells themselves Oct 13, 1929 Arthur Harden and Hans Euler - Cheplin won noble prize Determined how enzymes cause fermentation Oct 13, 1940 Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.
