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.
