Charles Kincaid Bockelman (November 29, 1922 – June 6, 2002) was an American nuclear physicist and deputy provost of Yale University.
During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
As a graduate student, Bockelman concentrated on nuclear physics and went on to do research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] before joining the Yale faculty in 1955 as an assistant professor.
In the 1960s the Arthur W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale centered on a tandem Van de Graaff heavy ion accelerator.
During his 20 years in the Provost's Office he facilitated the construction of new buildings, implementation of computer systems, worked with new and senior faculty and oversaw the growth of the sciences.