  The quark-meson coupling model due to Guichon is formulated on the basis of
the independent quark model of the nucleon proposed by Bogoliubov and is
applied to a phenomenological description of symmetric nuclear matter. The
model predicts, at saturation density, the compressibility $K=249$ MeV and the
quark effective mass $m_q^*= 249.1$ MeV, {the effective nucleon mass being
$M^*=747.3$ MeV}. The predicted nucleon mass radius is $r=0.93$ fm.
