The title makes reference to the book Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif, which first chapter is dedicated to Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek, "the first of the microbe hunters".
Pope John Paul II | Paul McCartney | Paul Simon | Paul Newman | Pope Paul VI | St Paul's Cathedral | Paul | Jean-Paul Sartre | Peter Paul Rubens | Paul Robeson | Paul Anka | St. Paul | Paul Hindemith | Paul Revere | Paul Weller | Paul Klee | Saint Paul | Paul Kelly | Paul Cézanne | John Paul Jones | Paul Ryan | Paul Gauguin | Paul Oakenfold | Jean Paul Gaultier | Paul the Apostle | Paul Keating | Paul Auster | Pope John Paul I | Paul Martin | Paul Whiteman |
Moberg and Steinman say that he was motivated by Paul de Kruif’s book Microbe Hunters and by Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith, as well as by his experiences with penicillin on the Liberty ships, to become a doctor and medical researcher.