Marie Curie went to university in Poland.
Flying University ( Uniwersytet Latający , less often translated as `` Floating University '' ) was an underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw , the historic Polish capital , then under the control of the Russian Empire , and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People 's Republic of Poland . Marie Curie . She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris , and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris . She studied at Warsaw 's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw .