Torsten Valdemar Gustafson (born 8.05.1904) is a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was born in Falkenberg. He studied at the universities of Lund, Göttingen and Copenhagen. In 1933 — 70 he worked at the University of Lund (professor from 1939), and in 1957 — 58 he was director of the Institute of Theoretical Nuclear Physics (NORDITA).
His research concerned aerodynamics, the physics of the sea, quantum electrodynamics, and atomic and nuclear physics.
A member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.