Henry Van Peters Wilson
OccupationBiologist
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863โ€“1939)[1] was a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology. In 1907 he demonstrated that silicate sponges have the ability to re-form into functional creatures after the individual cells have been dissociated from one another by mechanical means (sieving through a fine silk mesh).[2]

References

  1. โ†‘ Henry Van Peters Wilson, A Biographical Memoir, "".
  2. โ†‘ Migration and Rearrangement of Cells Within Sponges, " Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine"


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