Milestones

SELECTED

Former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres, as Secretary General of the United Nations, by the body’s Security Council. The onetime U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is set to succeed Ban Ki-moon in 2017.

WON

Nobel Prize in Physics, by David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, for work in the field of topology revealing “secrets of exotic matter.”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, by Yoshinori Ohsumi, for research into autophagy, the process by which cells essentially eat themselves.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, by Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard “Ben” Feringa, for developing “molecular machines.” The tiny structures could radically change health care, computing and more.

PERFORMED

Four womb transplants from living donors in the U.S. for the first time. The surgeries could allow thousands of women without uteruses to give birth in the future.

ENDED

The U.S. government’s formal oversight role of the Internet. The U.S. Commerce Department handed over control of the Internet’s directory of website addresses to an independent global group based in Los Angeles.

ACQUIRED

Outdoor gear giant Cabela’s, by rival retailer company Bass Pro Shops, for about $5.5 billion, as part of the fifth largest retail deal in U.S. history.