Henry Van Peters Wilson Explained

Henry Van Peters Wilson
Occupation:	Biologist
Workplaces:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863 - 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]

Notes and References

1. Henry Van Peters Wilson, A Biographical Memoir, "https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/wilson-henry.pdf".
2. Migration and Rearrangement of Cells Within Sponges, "http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/harris/Research/sponges.htm "