Paul Fildes

Paul Fildes

Sir Paul Gordon Fildes FRS (10 February 1882 - 5 February 1971) was a British pathologist and microbiologist who worked at Porton Down during the Second World War. He was a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the RNVR, served in the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar (1915-19), awarded the Order of the British Empire (1919). He helped Donald O. Woods discover how sulphonamides worked; was a member of the scientific staff, Medical Research Council (1934-49); Fellow of the Royal Society and author of works on haemophilia and syphilis. Fildes received the Copley Medal in 1963. He was the 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. [http://www.strategypage.com/articles/biotoxin_files/BIOTOXINASSASINATION.asp]

External links

* [http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:CWlHwwGrj6MJ:www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v12p109y1989.pdf+%22Paul+Fildes%22+%22pathologist%22&hl=en Life science essay at U of Pennsylvania]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01572 National Portrait gallery]
* [http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/REG/causeries/dates_1940.html Pasteur.fr]


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