Price attended Swarthmore College, earning a Bachelor's degree in chemistry with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa in 1934.

He developed tests to detect known chemical warfare agents in water and constructed equipment to remove them.

[6] He worked on the synthesis of 4,7-dichloroquinoline[7][8] and tested chloroquine as a possible substitute for quinine, which was no longer available for the treatment of malaria.

This conference marks the point at which American physical organic chemists in the United States began to identify themselves as members of a field.

[14] [15] Price was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Polymer Science in 1946, with Paul M. Doty and Herman Francis Mark.

To solve our present crisis, precipitated by technical developments which have made all nations neighbors in the world community, we must achieve political progress by building an effective political organization at the world level."

[2] He chaired a new committee, on Chemistry and Public Affairs, and worked with Arnold Thackray, head of the University of Pennsylvania department of History and Sociology of Science, to establish a Center for the History of Chemistry (CHOC).

[26][27] Price was instrumental in helping CHOC to obtain funding from John C. Haas,[28][29] Arnold Beckman, and others.

[32] The Charles C. Price Fellowship for postdoctoral students studying the history of science and technology was first awarded by the institution in 1999.

[33] Mary Elma (White) Price died of cancer in 1982, survived by her husband and their five children: Patricia (1938-), Susanne (1940-), Sarah (1944-), Judith (1946-) and Charles Coale IV (1948-).

[35] The organization advocated strengthening the United Nations to form a world government that could resolve issues and ensure peace.

[38][39] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

[46] He encouraged scientists and government institutions to work together in support of disarmament and to seek peaceful solutions to economic, political, and social challenges throughout the world.

[50][51][52][53] When he moved from South Bend, Indiana to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1954, he sailed his yacht from Lake Michigan to the Chesapeake Bay, a three-month trip.

[49] In 1970, he sailed from Bermuda to the Isle of Wight, England in his 45-foot sailboat, to compete in the Cowes Week regatta.

Other competitors in the races at Cowes Week included Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prime Minister Edward Heath.