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Paul Fildes

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Sir Paul Fildes (1882-1971) was a pathologist and microbiologist who worked at Porton Down during the Second World War.

Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the RNVR, served in the Royal Navy Hospital, Haslar (1915-19), awarded the Order of the British Empire (1919); helped Donald O. Woods discover how sulphonamides worked; member of the scientific staff, Medical Research Council (1934-49); Fellow of the Royal Society and author of works on haemophilia and syphilis. Received the Copley Medal in 1963. Son of artist Luke Fildes.


World War II

Fildes allegedly claimed that he assisted with Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague) by providing the Czech agents of the Special Operations Executive with modified Gammon grenades filled with Botulin toxin.[1]

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