Ludwig Guttman's Death Anniversary

Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS who passed away on 18 March 1980, aged 80, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games. A Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, Guttmann was a founding father of organized physical activities for people with disabilities.