Kizhakeyil Lukose Sebastian (K. L. Sebastian) is a professor of chemistry at the department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Career
He is one of the leading theoretical chemists of India working on the applications of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics in chemistry and chemical physics. The topics studied include molecular devices, nanotechnology and surfaces, molecular ratchets, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of polymers, biophysical chemistry and chemical dynamics. Prof. Sebastian has authored more than 90 papers on various aspects of theoretical chemistry, chemical physics and polymer physics.
Awards and Honors
- Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy.
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science by the Government of India.
- Swadeshi Sastra Puraskar (1996).
- J. C. Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) (2008-2013).
- Amrut Modi Chair Professor in the Chemical Sciences Division of Indian Institute of Science (2008-2011).
His research topics include path integral representation of Fractional Brownian motion, ring closing opening dynamics in polymers, first passage time calculation in phase space, energy transfer between molecule and graphene, quantum coherence etc. He introduced what is known as the kink mechanism for the translocation of long chain molecule through a nano-pore. In other words Kramers problem for the long chain molecule.
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- T. R. Govindachari (1960)
- Asima Chatterjee (1961)
- S. C. Bhattacharyya (1962)
- B. D. Tilak (1963)
- Sukh Dev (1964)
- Sadhan Basu & R. C. Mehrotra (1965)
- N. A. Ramaiah (1966)
- Santappa (1967)
- C. N. R. Rao (1968)
- A. C. Jain (1969)
- P. T. Narasimhan (1970)
- M. M. Dhar (1971)
- S. V. Kessar & A. P. B. Sinha (1972)
- M. V. George & H. B. Mathur(1973)
- U. R. Ghatak & K. Nagarajan(1974)
- D. S. Bhakuni & Animesh Chakravorty(1975)
- Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976)
- Mihir Chowdhury & S. Ranganathan(1977)
- Girjesh Govil & Goverdhan Mehta (1978)
- D. Balasubramanian & B. M. Deb (1981)
- C. L. Khetrapal & G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982)
- Samaresh Mitra & Naba Kishore Ray (1983)
- Paramasivan Natarajan & K. J. Rao (1984)
- P. Balaram (1986)
- Debashis Mukherjee (1987)
- Kaushal Kishore (1988)
- Srinivasan Chandrasekaran & M. K. Chaudhuri (1989)
- B. M. Choudary & N. Sathyamurthy (1990)
- Biman Bagchi & J. S. Yadav (1991)
- Sumit Bhaduri & Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992)
- S. R. Gadre & T. Ramasami (1993)
- E. D. Jemmis & D. D. Sarma (1994)
- Jayaraman Chandrasekhar & K. L. Sebastian (1995)
- Narayanan Chandrakumar & Mariappan Periasamy (1996)
- Kankan Bhattacharyya & Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997)
- A. R. Chakravarty & K. N. Ganesh (1998)
- Sourav Pal (2000)
- Uday Maitra (2001)
- Murali Sastry (2002)
- T. K. Chakraborty (2003)
- Srinivasan Sampath & K. George Thomas (2006)
- Amalendu Chandra & A. Ajayghosh (2007)
- Thalappil Pradeep & Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008)
- Charusita Chakravarty & Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009)
- Swapan K Pati & Sandeep Verma (2010)
- Balasubramanian Sundaram & Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011)
- Yamuna Krishnan (2013)
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- Biological Science
- Chemical Science
- Engineering Science
- Mathematical Science
- Medical Science
- Physical Science
- Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences
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Indian chemist |
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