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Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things. -
Understanding Fermentation
In 1854, the French chemist Louis Pasteu determinded that fermentation is caused by yeast. -
Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner recieved the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves case fermentation. -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
Two Decades later, two scientsts determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation. They too, won the nobel prize -
Technology
By 1940, technology was developed enough to use fermentation to produce antibiotics. -
8,000 BC.
Theuse of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date back to 8000 BC. -
3,000 years ago
3,000 years ago the chinese use fermented soybean to treat sking infections. The started to treat a varity of illnesses as early as 220 BC. -
Present
Today fermentation is used to produce industrial chemicals, medicines such as antiboticsm and acholic beverages, as well as to make bread rise and to preserve many types of food.
