Valentina Kobe

Valentina Kobe (14 February 1905 – 28 September 1998) was a Slovenian academic and anatomist. She was the first woman to become an assistant professor in the medical faculty at the University of Ljubljana. She became one of the leading anatomists in Yugoslavia and initiated the founding of the Yugoslavian Association of Anatomists. From 1948 to 1971, she was the head of the Anatomy Institute at the medical school of the University of Ljubljana. The textbooks she wrote are still in print and helped to standardize anatomical language for Slovenia. The university awards a prize in her name.