Why this photo of political spouses and partners is making waves

[jmowreader]

13. He has a Wiki page

His name is Joachim Sauer. He is a professor of quantum chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin.

I can think of five reasons he wouldn't have come.

He doesn't feel comfortable around non-scientists.
He just didn't want to.
He had other things to do...like final exam week for his students, or rearranging his sock drawer.
He was fearful that being around the Trump's would lower his IQ.
Or, most likely, that he'd absorb so much radioactivity from being in the same town as Donald Trump that it'd throw off his experiments for the next three years.