Actually it was Millikan through his manipulation of the...

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    Actually it was Millikan through his manipulation of the electric field who was able to extract Avogadro's number and by default then deterministically derive kB by the statistically assumed "R"

    I am pretty confident if you cut and paste what I just said to whomever it will validate my claim.
 
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