History of Fermentation

By lilninjahaley

  • Theodor Schwan

    Theodor Schwan
    Schwan concluded that fermentation is the result of living things

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

  • Edward Buchner

    Edward Buchner
    Edward Buchner recieved a noble prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.

  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Cheplin

    Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Cheplin
    Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Cheplin won the Noble prize for determining how enzymes cause fermentation

  • 1940

    technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics

  • 8000 B.C.

    8000 B.C.
    Most scholars date the development of agriculture and the use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce antibiotics to about 8000 B.C.

  • 220 B.C.

    220 B.C.
    The Chinese used fermented tea to treat a varity of illnesses.

  • 3000 years ago

    3000 years ago
    The chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections