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Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann, a German scientist, concluded that fermentation is the result of living things. -
Louis Pasteur
French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast. -
Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner, a German chemist received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the teast cells themselves, cause fermentation. -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin, two scientists, determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation and they won the Nobel prize for their work. -
Antiiotics
By the 1940's, technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics.