Grant Imahara
Sign in to saveAmerican electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1970-10-23
- Died
- 2020-07-13
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Kickin' Bot
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Film & TV
Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA
Grant Masaru Imahara was an American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor. He is best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed and built numerous robots and specialized in operating computers and electronics to test myths. Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm, where he worked in the THX division as an engineer and in the Industrial…
Known for
- MythBusters: There's Your Problem — Self2021
- White Rabbit Project — Himself - Host2016
- Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! — Lodge2015
- Caper2014
- Drunk History — Frank Inouye2013
- Sharkzilla — Himself2012
- The Guild — Grant Imahara2007
- Eureka — EMO Robot Scientist2006
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self2005
- MythBusters — Self - Host2003
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 8
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,371x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,771x
- Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II
· 1993 · cited 10,412x
- Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm
· 1996 · cited 10,210x
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Key dates
- Born
- 23 October 1970
- Died
- 13 July 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Grant
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- engineer
- Employer
- Lucasfilm
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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1970 births2020 deaths21st-century American male actorsAmerican electrical engineersAmerican male web series actorsAmerican people of Japanese descentAmerican roboticistsAmerican special effects peopleAmerican television hostsDeaths from intracranial aneurysmIndustrial Light & Magic peopleLucasfilm people