Nancy Ellen Abrams is a philosopher of science, lawyer, and author. She and her husband, world-renowned cosmologist Joel R. Primack, developed a new visual language to express the big ideas underlying the new universe picture, which Primack helped create. For ten years they co-taught a course called “Cosmology and Culture” at the University of California, Santa Cruz, which won prizes from both the Templeton Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. The course led to their coauthoring The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos.