The Nobel Peace Prize was part of Alfred Nobel's original will. So how is it an anachronism? Then I agree that the Norwegian Nobel committee hasn't shown particularly good judgement when chosing the winners lately.
Nobel isn’t noble in spirit. He created the Nobel prize because his eulogy was accidentally published before his death, where he was declared the father of death (he invented dynamite), or something like that. He pulled a Bill Gates and started doing philanthropy to clear his name. His real eulogy was far better. I don’t care for a second what that man thought was a good idea.
Wait is that it? His only problem was that he invented a better way to clear rocks?
He was an arms dealer, and won his riches by selling destruction.