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The radical changes in the concepts and approach in Physics at the turn ofthe Nineteenth century were so deep, that is acknowledged as a revolution.However, in 1970 Thomas Kuhn's careful reconstruction of the researches on theblack body problem, the concept itself of the revolution seemed to vanish inhis diluted discussion of every details. In the present paper, after anexamination of the limitations of Kuhn's response to his critics, I put forwardthe idea, although it is not new, that these changes in Physics cannot bereduced to a point-like event, but happened instead through multiple successive(and even contradictory) changes in the course of decades. Such as the oldquantum hypothesis, wave mechanics, orthodox quantum mechanics. In fact, theinnovative perspectives started in the 1980s have been considered as a thirdquantum revolution. My basic argument is that these changes, in order to bereally understood, must be interpreted not as mere specific changes in Physics,but framed in the context of the deep social, cultural, and economic changesduring those turbulent years. The main steps are outlined.

The revolution in physics of the early Nineteenth century revisited in the context of science-and-society interaction