History of Fermentation

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  • Theodor Schwann

    He concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.

  • Louis Pasteur

    The French chemist determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

  • Eduard Buchner

    He received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.

  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler- Chelpin

    They won the nobel prize for determining that enzymes cause fermentation.

  • Technology

    Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.