Mochizuki received a special award from the National Science Foundation for his work on the Burnside problem.
[1] Following the Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized on 19 February 1942 the deportation and internment of Japanese Americans with Executive Order 9066 which allowed regional military commanders to designate "military areas" from which "any or all persons may be excluded".
This authority was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the West Coast, including all of California and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in government camps.
[3] Mochizuki received his doctoral degree from the University of Washington with a dissertation work entitled "Finitistic homological dimensions and duality theory for rings".
[9][10][11] For his work on Burnside groups, Mochizuki received a special award from the National Science Foundation for "projects of high scientific merit involving scientists with a record of outstanding research accomplishments..."[1][11] Mochizuki is known for a non-commutative version of "Kolchin's Theorem" that solved a theorem of Ivan Kaplansky and for his work on automorphism groups with Bachmuth.