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Development of Agriculture!
The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcolholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date to about 8000 B.C. -
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The Chinese Early Use of Fermentation!
The Chinese used fermented soy bean curd to treat skin infections 3,000. They also strated using fermanted tea to treat a variety of ilness as early as 220 B.C. -
Theodor Schwann
Thoedor Shwann helps create the cell theory. Around 1840, Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of all living things. -
Louis Pasteur makes a dicovery!
A French chemist, who determined that fermentation is caused by yeast. -
Eduard Buchner Recieves a Prize!
In 1907, a German chemist named Eduard Buchner recieved the Nobel prize for shownig that enzymes, in the yeast cells, not the yeast itself, cause fermentation. -
Antibiotics!
By the 1940s, technology was developed to use fermentation to produce anibiotics! -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin Also Win a Prize!
About two decades later, two other scientists, Arthur and Hans, determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation. They won the Noble prize for their work in 1929.
