2012

TIME’s Person of the Year Issue: Cover Gallery

Every December, TIME honors a person of the year - along with a few notable runners-up. This year, in addition to "Person of the Year" Barack Obama, each runner–up was given a special cover treatment; see below for all five cover images which illustrate this year's issue

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Runner-Up: Fabiola Gianotti

Dec. 19, 2012

Cover Photograph by Levon Biss for TIME

The Italian particle physicist oversaw one of the world’s biggest scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. Read the full article.

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Next Runner-Up: Mohamed Morsi

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