The ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award winners for 2014 are:

• Martin Jäkel (CERN) was awarded for his contribution to the technical infrastructure and for being a pillar of the ATLAS operations for the whole of Run I.
• Jörg Stelzer (CERN), Tomasz Bold (AGH University of Science and Technology Cracow), and Werner Wiedenmann (University of Wisconsin) - Chief architects of the Trigger Core Software group - were recognized for their work in the design, implementation, commissioning and support of the ATLAS Trigger Core Software.
• John Chapman (University of Cambridge) was awarded for his work in ATLAS simulation, especially in developing, maintaining and coordinating the ATLAS pile-up simulation and digitisation. He dedicated the award to everyone who works in simulation in the collaboration.
• Walter Lampl (University of Arizona), Stefan Simion (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire Orsay), and Denis Damazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory) were awarded for their work on the installation, maintenance and problem solving of the Liquid Argon front-end electronics and reconstruction, condition database, calibration, commissioning and running of the Liquid Argon detector during Run I.
• Nikolay Azaryan, Vitaly Batusov, Mikhail Lyablin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna), and Dirk Mergelkuhl (CERN) were recognised for their contribution in the alignment and survey work on almost all of the ATLAS detector components and supporting structures.

See the News Article on the 2014 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2014 are:

• Andrew Chisholm (University of Birmingham, UK) - Measurements of the chi_c and chi_b quarkonium states in pp collisions with the ATLAS experiment
• Kun Liu (Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France, and the University of Science and Technology of China) - Observation of the Higgs particle in diphoton events and search for the Higgs particle in Zgamma events at ATLAS
• Marcus Morgenstern (Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany) - Search for heavy resonances decaying into the fully hadronic di-tau final state
• Priscilla Pani (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) - To the bottom of the stop: Calibration of bottom-quark jets identification algorithms and search for scalar top-quarks and dark matter with the Run 1 ATLAS data
• Dennis Perepelitsa (Columbia University, USA) - Inclusive jet production in ultrarelativistic proton-nucleus collisions
• James Saxon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Measurements of its Production, and a Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production

See the News Article on the 2014 Awards.