2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47444I describe how effective chiral Lagrangian field theories work for nuclei and nuclear matter by going from the deuteron to dense hadronic matter via BR scaling and Landau Fermi-liquid fixed point parameters, with possible applications to relativistic heavy-ion processes and compact ``nuclear stars.''21 pages, Latex with sprocl.sty, no figures; Talk given at the Joint Session of 97 Korean Physical Society Meeting and APCTP Workshop on Astro-Hadron Physics, Suwon/Seoul, Korea, 25-31 October 1997High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyNuclear Theorytext