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Henry Van Peters Wilson
Occupation	Biologist
Academic work
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863–1939) 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).

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

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