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Charles P. Casey (born January 11, 1942) is the Homer Adkins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His field of specialty is organometallic chemistry. He was the 1994 President of the American Chemical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Among the significant awards has received for his research are the American Chemical Society Award for the Advancement of Inorganic Chemstry (2011) and the American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry (1991).

Education
Casey received his BS in Chemistry from St. Louis University in 1963, and his PhD in Chemistry from MIT in 1967 under the direction of George M. Whitesides. He was a postdoctoral fellow in organic chemistry at Harvard University from 1967-1968. His thesis title was "Thermal decomposition of organocopper(I) compounds".

Academic Career
Casey has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin since 1968. He achieved the rank of Full Professor in 1977. Named positions he has held at Wisconsin include the Romnes Faculty Fellowship (1977), the Evan P. Helfaer Professorship (1985-1991), and the Homer B. Adkins Professorship (2004-present).