My homonymous uncle Joseph Conlon
I went to school at Christ the King primary and Douai Abbey, did undergraduate degrees at Reading and Cambridge, where I also continued to my PhD in DAMTP. I was a JRF at Trinity for three years before moving to Oxford where my college is New College (previously Balliol).
If you would like to learn about the Magdeburg spheres experiment, my father has written a book: Thinking about Nothing
Who's getting jobs in the UK, the US, and at postdoctoral level.