[en] Molecular reorientation and translation in molecular liquids was studied. A dominant premise in these studies was that, except in strongly hydrogen-bonded systems such as water, the dynamics of a liquid may be considered to be a series of impulsive collisions. Details of the behavior would be dominated by the shape and size of the molecules under constant packing conditions. The second area of effort was in the plastic crystalline solid phase of two globular molecules, adamantane and cyclohexane. The NMR technique was used in these studies to measure self-diffusion coefficients and spin-lattice relaxation times. The applicability of pulsed NMR techniques to the study of the kinetics of order--disorder phase transitions in solid adamantane was demonstrated