SKYRMIONS IN NUCLEI

The applications of skyrmions to the derivation of the nucleon-nucleon force are now over a dozen years old, and this occasion is used to as sess the degree of success of the endeavor. A very brief review is giv en of the use of skyrmions for determining single-baryon properties. T hen their use for two-nucleon systems is described, with attention to the use of the product ansatz, the full structure of the lagrangian, b aryon resonance admixtures, dilatons, and exact solutions for the B = 2 system in order to find the sources of attraction in the-central pot ential. We briefly address possible insights into the behavior of the nucleon in nuclei achieved from the skyrmion approach.