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Marie and her sister Bronislawa decided to go to Paris to study medicine. They made an agreement that Marie would pay for her sister to go to school first, and two years later Bronislawa would pay for Marie to go to school. Marie got a job as governess to make the money to support her sister. Marie first began her science classes at the Floating University, a secret school for women that met in their homes because women were not allowed to attend college. Her cousin, Jozef Boguski, was the director of the Warsaw Museum of Industry. He encouraged her to study physics and let her do experiments on the weekends at the museum. In October 1891, Marie moved to Paris to begin her studies in physics, chemistry, and mathematics at Sorbonne (the University of Paris). She attended class during the day and tutored evenings. In 1893 she got a degree in physics and began working in an industrial laboratory at Lippman's. She continued her studies at the Sorbonne and in 1894 got her mathematics degree.
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