Includes articles and publications by Bowers and others; correspondence; notebooks; drafts and reports; lantern slides of charts and equipment; records of inventions; files on research associates; research proposals, contracts; material on impact of federal financing on higher education; material on solid state physics an low temperature physics, social responsibility of scientists; files on students; grade lists, lecture notes, problem sets, and student evaluations from physics courses taught by Bowers; research notes, charts, and data; and other papers reflecting Bowers' career as a physicist and a professor of physics at Cornell. Also, Bowers' appointment forms and letters, typescript journal entries, and letters of condolence on Bowers' death.