From age 12 he attended King Edward's School in Birmingham, from where he gained a place at Mason College.
He returned to Mason College in 1898 and finished his Stockholm research, for which he was awarded a University of London DSc.
After a year at Sheffield, Price moved to the University of Birmingham, as senior lecturer in chemistry.
One of the important projects was the design and filling of special apparatus for the formation of smoke screens at sea, used with great success in the raid on Zeebrugge.
[2] In September 1920 Price was appointed director of research at The British Photographic Association, which had been formed two years earlier.