Professor William Charles Price FRS (1 April 1909 – 10 March 1993) was a British physicist (spectroscopy).
Price then spent three years as a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
He set up a spectroscopic group at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) at Billingham Manufacturing Plant in 1943.
During this period he became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1959), Wheatstone Professor of Physics (1962) and Dean of the Faculty of Science (1966 to 1968).
He was encouraged by his head of department (the Wheatstone Professor) to look at many substances with spectroscopic techniques, and at the time there was much interest in the structure and function of DNA and proteins.