Henry Van Peters Wilson

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| name = Henry Van Peters Wilson

| image = File:Yackety yack (1907) - DPLA - fdccaea386ee463f5be4c0aea9875f86 (page 32) (cropped).jpg

| occupation = Biologist

| workplaces = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863–1939)Henry Van Peters Wilson, A Biographical Memoir, "[https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/wilson-henry.pdf]". 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).Migration and Rearrangement of Cells Within Sponges, "[http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/harris/Research/sponges.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930235040/http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/harris/Research/sponges.htm |date=2011-09-30 }}"