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Who succeeded in 1857 in proving the involvement of microorganisms (yeasts) in alcoholic fermentation?
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Pasteur Louis
The French scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) made outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, microbiology, agronomy and medicine. He was born in the western French town of Dôle in the department of Jura. In fact, in the very region where the famous Vin Jaune is produced in the Château-Chalon appellation. As early as 1857, he succeeded in proving the involvement of microorganisms in alcoholic fermentation. Until then, the process was unknown. In 1861, he recognised that yeasts consume much less sugar in the presence of oxygen or in an aerobic...
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