Jean-Baptiste Donnet (28 September 1923 in Pontgibaud (Puy-de-Dôme) – 30 November 2014 in Sentheim (Haut-Rhin)) was a French chemist who is noted as a pioneer in the surface chemistry of carbon black[1][2] and as a founder of the Upper Alsace University.
Jean-Baptiste Donnet, from a modest background, received his secondary education by correspondence, while an apprentice craftsman.
After World War II, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering.
His scientific career began in CNRS at Strasbourg, then Mulhouse from 1953.
He is one of the founders in 1970 of the academic center of Mulhouse, which in 1975 became the University of Haute-Alsace.