The units on the ruler are inches, centimeters, and millimeters. Nanometers (nm) is equivalent to 10^-9 m. Each graduation on the ruler represents 0.1 millimeters or 0.01 centimeters. The other side also has a graduation of 0.1 inch. The function of the ruler depends on how you use it.
That John Dalton was an English chemist that was most famous for proposing atomic chemistry.He proposed atomic theory in 1803,which states that all matter is composed of small indivisible particles called atoms.