History of Fermentation

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    they started using fermentation tea to treat a veriety of illnessesas ealy as 220 B. C.

  • Schawn, the German scientist who helped that fermentationis the result of living things.

  • The French chemist Louis Pasteur understand this important process.

  • a German chemist named Eduard Buchner recieved the Nobel prize for showing that enyems in yeast celles, not yeast cells, themseleves,cause fermentation

  • Their names are Arthur Harden and Hans Eular-Chelpin, and they won the Nobel prize for their work in 1929

  • by the 1940s, technology was devloped to use fermentation to produce antibioctics.

  • The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages is as old as the development of agriculture itself, which most scholars date to about 8000 B.C.