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Jan 1, 1000
Fermentation first used
Fermentation used to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages. -
Schwann
Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is a result of living things. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast. -
Eduard Buchner
Euduard Buchner recieved a Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells cause fermentation. -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
Determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation and won the Nobel prize in 1929. -
Technology
Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics. -
Fermentation today
Today we still use fermentation in similar ways as we have been for the passed ten thousand years.
