Adventures in an amorphous landscape

It is with great pleasure that I accept the George W. Morey Award for 1998 honoring as it does the research of my collaborators and me over the past 4 5 yrs and the many other activities related to glass science in which I hav e been engaged. Here I review some of my research on the glassy state of ma tter. When my adventures in an amorphous landscape began in 1952 my concept of glassy materials was something through which one looked or from which o ne drank. (C) Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.