* Kevin Puts, 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for classical music composition ( born in St. Louis, MO, but grew up in Alma )

In 2012, Nixon stars as Professor Vivian Bearing in the Broadway debut of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit.

* Anne F. Hyde, historian, author, 2012 Bancroft Prize winner, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist

It was announced on April 16, 2012 that Schmich had won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

In 2012, The Pale King, a posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace, was published four years after the novelist's death, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was given widespread acclaim.

* The Historic ‘ Napalm Girl ’ Pulitzer Image Marks Its 40th Anniversary, abc News, 2012 / 6 / 8

In April 2012, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported that the US Joint Special Operations Command had trained MEK operatives at a secret site in Nevada from 2005 to 2009.

He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2012.

* Pulitzer Prize for Biography ( 2012 )

In June, 2012 Jerry Hall made a one week appearance with David Soul at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in a reprise of the Pulitzer Prize nominated play by A. R.

" Kristof was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize again in 2012 ; altogether, he has been a Pulitzer finalist six times.

On April 16, 2012, The Stranger won its first Pulitzer Prize.

Mr. Kimbrough is part of the cast of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2012 Broadway revival of Mary Chase's Pulitzer prize-winning play Harvey playing William R. Chumley, M. D., with Emmy winner Jim Parsons in the lead as Elwood P. Dowd.

Some of its most famous writers are Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, who left in early 2012.

He will appear in the Broadway musical Newsies as Joseph Pulitzer from October 9, 2012 through December 16, 2012, as a temporary replacement for John Dossett.

The Pulitzer Trophy on display in 2012 in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

On June 30, 2012, he married Amanda Bennett, a senior editor at Bloomberg News, a former editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a colleague from the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Among others, Jill Stein has been endorsed for 2012 President by linguist, author and activist Noam Chomsky and by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and war correspondent Chris Hedges.

* In 2012, The Huffington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for senior military correspondent David Wood's 10-part series about wounded veterans, Beyond the Battlefield.

* Margaret Edson, 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for the play Wit, as of February 2012 a social-studies teacher at Inman Middle School

William Raspberry ( October 12, 1935 – July 17, 2012 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated American public affairs columnist.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

The 2012 Man Booker Prize is to be awarded on 16 October 2012.

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

In 2012 Schroeder was awarded the Trotter Prize by Texas A & M University's College of Science.

The film competed for the Palme d ' Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where Loach won the Jury Prize.

He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland " in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel ".

On April 20, 2012, Torvalds was declared one of two winners of that year's Millennium Technology Prize, together with Shinya Yamanaka for what is widely described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the technology field.

In 2012, Ono was the winner of the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.

* July 2 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2012 )

In 2012 Thurston was awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize by the AMS for seminal contribution to research.

In 2012, Simon was awarded the Polar Music Prize ( shared with Yo-Yo Ma ).

* 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award

In 1999 Graves was awarded the National Medal of Arts, in 2001 the AIA Gold Medal, in 2010 the AIA Topaz Medal, and in 2012 the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture.

Witten has been honored with numerous awards including a MacArthur Grant ( 1982 ), the Fields Medal ( 1990 ), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ( 2000 ), the National Medal of Science ( 2002 ), Pythagoras Award ( 2005 ), the Henri Poincaré Prize ( 2006 ), the Crafoord Prize ( 2008 ), the Lorentz Medal ( 2010 ) the Isaac Newton Medal ( 2010 ) and the Fundamental Physics Prize ( 2012 ).

In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.

Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate ( 2012 ).

* 2012: Neustadt International Prize for Literature

* Kluge Prize, 2012

He received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, the Crafoord Prize in 2008 and the Shaw Prize in 2012.

The dates given above are for 2012.

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

Furthermore, it was subject to relativity and thus was not constant for all observers, therefore, in 2012, the IAU redefined it again to just simply be.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

As of May 2012, it is on loan to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for a major exhibition.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

In March, 2012 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock which violated FDA regulations.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

In 2012, " ASU students ranked fifth among all public universities in National Science Foundation grants for graduate study and 11th among all universities, including the Ivy institutions.

In 2012 he took over for Lisa Love, formerly senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California.

* Austin Chamber Newcomer Guide ( 2012 ) The Greater Austin Newcomer and Relocation Guide for families, individuals and companies moving to Austin.

* 210: 951 Brownsville / Laredo / San Antonio, TX ( GTE ) ( deprecated, 951 is available for reassignment as of 2012.

* 216: 331 Akron / Canton / Cleveland / Lorain / Youngstown, OH ( deprecated, 331 is available for assignment as a new CO code as of 2012.

* 219: 550 Gary / Hammond / Michigan City / Southbend, IN ( deprecated, 550 is available for reassignment as of 2012.

* 219: 559 Gary / Hammond / Michigan City / Southbend, IN ( deprecated, 559 is available for reassignment as of 2012.

On August 30, 2011, Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, who correctly predicted the 2011 Super Bowl, made his predictions for the 2011 season and picked the Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers in the 2012 Super Bowl.

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

* 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, British politician and campaigner for disabled rights ( b. 1922 )

As of 2012, no crystal structure is available for class I AC.