Wikipedia:Nikola Lonchar

Nikola Lonchar (Никола Лончар, ; born November 24, 1954), also known as Nikolai Lonchar, is a Serbian-American inventor and founder and president of Philadelphia-based Tesla Science Foundation (Serbian: Теслинa научнa фондацијa), dedicated to the legacy of Nikola Tesla.

Career
As a young boy in Yugoslavia, Lonchar was a participant of many science exhibitions. In the 1980s he moved to the United States, but prior to the Yugoslav Wars he returned to Serbia with his family and tried to develop a business related to security and protection. However, Lonchar was hired by Institute of Transportation CIP, with which he designed new products in the security field. The war outbreak and the sanctions forced him to leave everything and to return to America. He was visiting his homeland during the 1990s and procured many books, handicrafts and other items about Tesla and became the owner of a large "Tesla things" collection.

In 2004 Lonchar and other inventors founded Nikola Tesla Inventors Club (later Nikola Tesla Club), which was in 2010 renamed to Tesla Science Foundation (TSF). Today, he advocates for the grow of the organization, lectures on Tesla's inventions in American schools and tries to involve the Serbian academic public.In 2014, he founded a branch of the TSF in Serbia – Tesla Sicence Foundation Serbia, headquartered in Zemun. Lonchar has helped in including Tesla to the syllabus of American schools and he works to improve education in various schools and universities by founding Nikola Tesla clubs.

Lonchar's Tesla Ways project will provide users with a software geo-guide through Tesla's life. He is awarded with the Ben Franklin Technology Center Grant, State of Pennsylvania Grant, Gold Medal of Nikola Tesla and American Paradigm Schools Award.