De Donder, who contributed i.e., to the field of general relativity.
The early archives of the society were lost during the Second World War, when its activities were suspended.
This publication was succeeded by Physicalia in 1964, and by BPhy-Magazine (an electronic journal) in 2009.
In 1970, under the presidency of Lieven Van Gerven, the society started its series of "general scientific meetings" which bring together physicists from all Belgian universities and research institutes, and of all physics disciplines.
The conference location cycles between the ten different universities that offer physics programmes in Belgium, and is still organised yearly.