Claim: Marie Curie studied at an underground university.
Evidence: She studied at Warsaw 's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw.
Flying University -LRB- Uniwersytet Latający , less often translated as `` Floating University '' -RRB- 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.