Nikola Lonchar

Nikola Lonchar (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Лончар, Serbian pronunciation: [nǐkola lǒntʃaːr]; 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.[1][2][3]

For the Serbian basketball player, see Nikola Lončar.
Nikola Lonchar
Born
Nikola Lončar

(1954-11-24) November 24, 1954
SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Other namesNick Lonchar, Nikolai Lonchar
Occupationinventor
Years active1986—present
Known forfounding Tesla Science Foundation
Websitenicklonchar.com
teslasciencefoundation.org

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.[4][5]

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.[6][7] 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.[8]

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.[5]

See also

References
  1. "In the Mirror with Ivanus: Nikola Lonchar," no. 232, p. 10), Serbian Mirror (in Serbian), Chicago, May 2021. Retrieved: November 15, 2021.
  2. "Nikola Lonchar: To Celebrate Tesla with Dignity"), Glas Srpske (in Serbian), December 22, 2012. Retrieved: November 15, 2021.
  3. "Serbian Diaspora Media Network: The American Dream"), Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian), April 20, 2019. Retrieved: November 15, 2021.
  4. "Search for Tesla's Sketches", Večernje novosti (in Serbian), November 16, 2009. Retrieved: November 17, 2021.
  5. Petković Laković, G. (editor) (2017). Why We Left. Belgrade: Ultimatum.rs, pp. 117–124.
  6. "A Thousand Lightnings of Nikola Tesla", Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region (in Serbian), July 11, 2013. Retrieved: November 17, 2021.
  7. "Tesla Spirit, the Eighth Conference at New Yorker", Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian), January 16, 2020. Retrieved: November 17, 2021.
  8. "The Inclusion of Nikola Tesla to American School System", Voice of America (in Serbian), November 21, 2015. Retrieved: November 17, 2021.

Literature
  • Rusch, E. (2013). Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN 978-0-7636-5855-7.
  • Cawthorne, N. (2014). Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah. New York: Chartwell Books. ISBN 978-0-7858-2944-7.
  • Matić, M. (2016). Tesla. Novi Sad: Studio Bečkerek. p. 165. ISBN 978-86-80120-14-0.
  • Petković Laković, G., ed. (2017). Why We Left. Belgrade: Ultimatum.rs. pp. 117–124. ISBN 978-86-80274-09-6.
  • Subotić, O. (2020). Tesla: Spiritual Figure. Stari Banovci / Belgrade: Bernar / Nikola Tesla Museum. ISBN 978-86-6431-124-3.
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