British Professor honoured at nobel ceremony. British Professor Peter Brian Medawar (right) bows to the distinguished audience, including King Gustav of Sweden (left), and Princesses Margaretha and Birgitta, after receiving his Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Medawar, won his award - jointly with Professor Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet of Australia - for the discovery that a body's rejection of material from a foreign body is not inherited, but developed gradually in the foetus and the young organism. December 10th 1960