But in a broader context, the work earned Ehrlich the 1908 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (which he shared with Russian researcher Ilya Mechnikov) and, according to the Nobel Prize organisation’s biography of Ehrlich, made him “famous as one of the main founders of chemotherapy”. The “magic bullet”, in the Hollywood telling of the story, refers to the (spoiler alert) ultimately successful quest to find a treatment for syphilis in the first decade of the 20th century. In 1940, for example, filmmakers gave us Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, a biographical film starring renowned American actor Edward G Robinson in the title role as Dr Paul Ehrlich. Once in a while, the entertainment industry tires of making movies about comic-book characters and looks to science history to provide gripping tales of adventure – usually with fewer gun battles and explosions.
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