The ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award winners for 2020 are:

• Laetitia Bardo (CERN), Marie-Solene Teurnier (CERN) and Laure Tranchand (CERN) for outstanding contributions and dedication to the safety of ATLAS, especially in 2020.
• Susumu Oda (Kyushu University) for outstanding contributions to ATLAS software, notably the multithreaded migration of Athena.
• Ewelina Maria Lobodinska (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) for outstanding contributions to the development of Monte Carlo generator software in the Athena framework.
• Clément Camincher (CERN), Adriana Milic (University of Toronto) and Nikiforos Nikiforou (University of Texas at Austin) for outstanding contributions to the operation and performance of the Liquid Argon Calorimeter.
• Elodie Deborah Resseguie (University of Pennsylvania and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Shion Chen (University of Pennsylvania), George Ian Dyckes (University of Pennsylvania), Khilesh Pradip Mistry (University of Pennsylvania), Daniil Ponomarenko (National Research Nuclear University/MEPhI), Vincent Wong (University of British Columbia) and Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Pennsylvania) for outstanding contributions to the DAQ upgrades and commissioning directed to the TRT operation at high occupancy and trigger rates.
• Toshi Sumida (Kyoto University), Tomomi Kawaguchi (Nagoya University), Junpei Maeda (Kobe University), Júlio Vieira de Souza (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora) for outstanding contributions to the reduction of the Level-1 muon endcap trigger rates.
• Danijela Bogavac (IFAE) for outstanding contributions to the Tile Calorimeter maintenance and commissioning activities in LS2.
• George Iakovidis (Brookhaven National Laboratory) for outstanding contributions to the development of front-end electronics and readout for the New Small Wheel detector.

See the News Article on the 2020 Awards

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.